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  <Title>Mental State Adjectives: the Perspective of Generative Lexicon</Title>
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this article, we extended GL to the treatment of French mental state adjectives. We showed how GL can adequately account for the following: (a) Avoiding the multiplication of entries.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The different senses of the mental adjectives (examples (11)to (14))and their polyvalency (examples (3) to (5)) follows from the qualia representation.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> (b) Explaining the links between the different senses of mental adjectives. The qualia structure we proposed in (15) and (16) makes explicit the links between the ditl~rent senses of mental adjectives (mental state of an individual, causative and manifestation). In (15), the qualia structure specifies that emotional states are caused by a causal event and can have a further manifestation; in (16), that the agent-oriented state can have a fnrther manifestation.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> (c) Explaining the semantic selection of mental state adjectives. The specific semantic selection of mental adjectives follows from the headcdness system.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> (d) Distinguishing two kinds of adjectives: those which denote simple type (rouge (red), grand (big), etc.) and those like mental adjectives which denote dotted type. This distinction is in accordance with the classical distinction drawn between stative adjectives and dynamic ones, which, following Quirk et al., 1994:434, denote qualities that are thought to be subject to control by possessor. GL allows this distinction to be characterized and given a more formal representation, an adjective being dynamic if it refers to the cause or its further manifestation.</Paragraph>
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